The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 400
andstill others which were moved by the expansion of heatedair. In his works, several steam-boilers are described,usually simple pipes or cyhndrical vessels, the steam be-ing generated in them by the fire on the altar, and thusforms a steam-blast. But it is to be observed that, sofar as can be… … HEEOS ENGINE. (B. C. 200.) pagan priests, designed to excite the wonder and fear ofthe masses, and lead them into the behef that the priests,were possessed of supernatural powers. From the time of Hero, 200 B. C, there is substan-tially nothing said of steam for more than a thousandyears. Even at…
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